Bitcoin Is A Step Closer To Becoming A Part Of Your Web Browser

Flickr / zcopley Just four companies will produce the microchips on which the global economy depends Mom’s at work? Sweden’s solution is round-the-clock preschools Unhappy US workers bow out of bring your kid to work day Here are the Western retailers that source clothes from the Bangladeshi factories where over 200 workers died Hike, the messaging app you can use even if you can’t use apps A funny thing just happened: virtual currency bitcoin has now passed the first round of approval required to become a standard for the web, alongside other familiar “schemes” which allow elements on a webpage to, for example, open your email application when you click on an email address on a webpage. This is the first time a payment system has ever been legitimized in this way. The web—and more specifically HTML5, the language which web browsers understand—works because everyone who ma...